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Cork Street public art

Context Office helped Cork Street Galleries to realise new public art installations at the heart of London’s West End art scene. We collaborated with curators, technicians and Westminster City Council to define streetscape, architectural and highways interactions. We brought together site-specific proposals to secure a unique planning approval for an on-going programme of open-air commissions in Cork Street spanning the highway and footways.

The inaugural artwork, ‘Ravenous and Predatory’ by Gina Fischli was unveiled during Frieze Art Week 2021 – twenty-six large format images brought beasts, common and wild alike, to the refined urbanity of Mayfair. The launch coincided with a series of new gallery openings and virtual artworks in the public realm. The second Cork Street Banners commission featured the acclaimed work ‘Feeling Her Way’ by Sonia Boyce OBE RA. Over several years we have continued to support Cork Street Galleries and in 2026 the banners programme was approved again, with artwork by Lubaina Himid CBE RA titled ‘Reading the Label’ in collaboration with the British Pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale.

Client: Cork Street Galleries and The Pollen Estate
Team: with Field & Lawn, artists including Gina Fischli, Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid
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Cork Street public art

Context Office helped Cork Street Galleries to realise new public art installations at the heart of London’s West End art scene. We collaborated with curators, technicians and Westminster City Council to define streetscape, architectural and highways interactions. We brought together site-specific proposals to secure a unique planning approval for an on-going programme of open-air commissions in Cork Street spanning the highway and footways.

The inaugural artwork, ‘Ravenous and Predatory’ by Gina Fischli was unveiled during Frieze Art Week 2021 – twenty-six large format images brought beasts, common and wild alike, to the refined urbanity of Mayfair. The launch coincided with a series of new gallery openings and virtual artworks in the public realm. The second Cork Street Banners commission featured the acclaimed work ‘Feeling Her Way’ by Sonia Boyce OBE RA. Over several years we have continued to support Cork Street Galleries and in 2026 the banners programme was approved again, with artwork by Lubaina Himid CBE RA titled ‘Reading the Label’ in collaboration with the British Pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale.

Client: Cork Street Galleries and The Pollen Estate
Team: with Field & Lawn, artists including Gina Fischli, Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid